Health Equity
Energy Security
Environmental Justice

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Toward Climate-Positive Growth, Sustainability
and Resilience.

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Who we are.

An independent non-profit organisation catalyzing progress in Climate-Positive growth across a range of fields through health-centric and nature-positive approaches that enhance or modulate interventions already operating at planetary scale.

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Climate Action Pillars

Planetary Health

Climate change is an undeniable global phenomenon and humans are entirely responsible for it, given the maladaptive behaviours in our unbridled pursuit of profit and convenience at all costs. It is an issue sown in ignorance, neglect and negligence and reaped in destruction, chaos, and loss of lives and biodiversity. Anthropogenic ecological overshoot is a major cause of the myriad symptoms around the globe today. Thus, changing basic human behaviour must now come first and fast. Mitigation can keep temperatures within adaptability thresholds while delivering immediate health co-benefits. Increasing access to zero-carbon energy, if delivered with health as a priority, will not only reduce energy poverty but also improve air quality and avert millions of deaths. A shift to electric mobility can avert 460,000 deaths yearly from travel-related PM2·5 emissions. These gains would reduce demand for healthcare services and help to minimize healthcare-related emissions and their impacts on the environment, livelihoods and economy.

Climate Resilience

Reaching net zero by 2050 requires that anthropogenic CO2 emissions be decreased from 2010 levels by ~45% by 2030. Meaning fossil fuels must be urgently phased out, climate change tackled, and its risk to health and survival reduced.

Large-scale GHG removal or offsetting may be infeasible due to a mix of factors. Alternatively, a combination of lowered emissions and natural carbon sinks may allow atmospheric GHG levels to remain constant while urgent but non-fatalistic adaptation and mitigation interventions can catalyse the pace to significantly lower GHG emissions.

Leveraging partnerships and collaboration, we centre Health Equity and Environmental Justice in our initiatives towards Climate Resilient planning, systems and communities.

Climate Literacy

Climate intuition and literacy across national-subnational-community cascade remains limited, making changing human behavior challenging. Urgent and focused action will not only limit human suffering, environmental degradation and economic damage from Climate effects but also reduce the need for more expensive and expansive actions and programs later.

Climate Change is a collective issue for humanity, and knowledge empowerment is crucial in fostering action and collective responsibility to address it. Bridging the gap between complex scientific jargon and the public can make climate concepts accessible and relatable to individuals from diverse backgrounds and levels of expertise. Access The Climate Dictionary here, a UNDP learning resource that provides an everyday guide to an in-depth understanding of climate change and communicating complex climate concepts in user-friendly and visually captivating manner. Its contents cater to diverse audiences, both scientifically inclined and those with limited knowledge of the subject.

We are targeting capacity building on climate literacy in key sectors that drive change. Through expanded research and evidence, we are modelling varied impacts of present inaction to support advocacy for planetary health and a critical re-thinking of One-Health within the national and regional spheres.

Climate Financing

Climate effects are ever more threatening, challenging us to innovate, unlock new routes to net zero, and foster the acceleration of sustainable progress; All of which create significant opportunities for the financial sector to respond. Nearly half of the CO2e reductions required to reach net zero come from innovations that are currently in the prototype phase. Scaling these innovations requires large up-front capital based on anticipated revenues or projected social impact. Through our Innovation and Market-Shaping initiatives, we are exploring how to prime impact financiers and connect private capital to early-stage green innovations to accelerate the transition to green growth.

Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy

Complementary Health-Centric and Nature-Positive Climate Action is now imperative in a world facing irreversible harm from an endless contest pitting convenience and commercial interests against sustainability and resilience goals. Science shows how human demands exceed the regenerative capacity of our planet’s natural ecosystem, causing an ecological overshoot and pushing humanity and the ecosystem closer to multiple ecological tipping points.

More than 30 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions are released into the atmosphere annually, mostly from fossil fuels, non-renewable energy production, consumption, poor waste management, and other polluting human activities contributing to GHG that cause climate change. As the world grapples with these ecological crises, it is clear some responses since the 1970s have fallen short of achieving transformative impact. Slow interventions don’t seem to work in tandem with the runaway climate crises, thus increasing losses and damages. However, the good news is that several of these tipping points are interrelated, and action to starve off one will also ameliorate others.

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UN SDGs Alignment

Our initiatives address five of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3
Aims to prevent needless suffering from preventable diseases and premature death by focusing on key targets that boost the
health of a country’s
overall population.
SDG 7
Ensure access to
affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
SDG 12
Aims to reduce our
ecological footprint by changing the way we produce and consume
goods and resources.
SDG 13
Aims to mobilize funds to address the needs of developing countries to
both adapt to climate change and invest in low-carbon development.
SDG 17
Aims to revitalize the
global partnership for sustainable development.

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